Sentence examples for town thrive from inspiring English sources

But it has also inspired sympathy for the company from residents who recall how it once made the town thrive.

Whatever its name, the town thrived.

The town thrived during the 19th and early 20th centuries as a shipbuilding and heavy engineering centre.

It's a great beer town, thriving music scene and full of cheap places to eat.

Under Songhai rule the town thrived as a major trans-Saharan trading centre for gold, copper, slaves, and salt.

During the 1970s the town thrived on oil; now the oil is mostly gone, and wind has created dozens of new jobs for an otherwise withering town.Wind is not without hitches.

Nevada, which in the early 21st century was one of the fastest-growing states in the country, appears far removed from the days when Virginia City was a fabled frontier town, thriving on the rich silver mines of the Comstock Lode.

It's a town thriving on music.' Hope mentions that there's another famous Brit in town: he's spotted John Cleese and can't resist suggesting that perhaps he was 'pining for the fjords'?

Throughout the 19th century, the town thrived as a center of ropemaking, fishing, and shipping, and once held the world's largest ropemaking company, the Plymouth Cordage Company.

"For a town to thrive it needs a diversity of housing stock," he said.

And some of those immigrants are helping the town to thrive.